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some of my favourite sign fails <3

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jessica really said “god forbid women do anything” and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cult’s 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda

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Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!

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due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

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My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

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Hey do u guys think about the horrible raw guilt and grief Tim felt when alex pulled off Brian’s mask and told Tim “you killed him” Because Brian was one of the only people Tim ever loved? Because Brian was one of the first people Tim could’ve ever seen a future with and he had to see his body,cold and unmoving in front of him? Do you think about all the sun light he’ll never see again even though he loved it? How Tim truly didn’t know what he would’ve done if he knew it was Brian? How he would’ve been confused between instinct and love? How Tim walks and thinks of Brian and still blames himself for everything and how Brian will never be able to explain any of it to Tim himself? And how no matter how much he wishes,he’s never going to get dinner with Brian again?

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yo, did you guys catch this show last night??? 

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merrick sightings from afar

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dumb stupid dumb jam comic 😭😭

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reincarnation of indoril nerevar? nah. nerevar's soul never got reincarnated. instead you have his descendant--from a secret child he had with voryn dagoth, the line continued on and on until nerevar's son was reborn and shipped off to morrowind, unknowingly righting the wrongs of his ancestors and solving his family history of absolutely abysmal luck

i tried playing around with colors. not sure how well it came out in some areas but uhhhh. yknow im still learning

i also STILL dont have a name for this guy. i know his name is the same as the first kid but im absolutely fucking abysmal at naming. i know his first lifetime, this life time, long family history of shit luck, and nerevar haunting him and teaching him (moon and star can be worn by his descendants--nerevar had that enchantment modified when he was hopeful he'd be able to pass it on to his children and his childrens' children. lol. but wearing it lets him FINALLY hear old nerevar)

let me know what you think of him. i got Stuff i could say about him. along with name suggestions :'D

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though its nothing but j̶̰̐u̶̘̓n̷̨͠k̸̳̎

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What if I just chose violence tonight.

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Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

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